To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.
Crime is a product of social excess.
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.
It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.
Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.
We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship, are totally alien to Marxism, and, as a matter of fact, serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and "foremen and accountants".
Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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